February 2010

I’ve decided to make the format of these weekly news updates a little snappier – so here’s my top 5 interesting/useful/topical search related posts from this week. SEOmoz: SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons – Some excellent key lessons from Rand at SEOmoz plucked from a recent presentation he gave in London. It’s easy to […]

In a Google Webmaster Central video from Matt Cutts this week, the topic of nofollow links in blog comments is discussed. There are 2 important conclusions: If you have a blog, you should nofollow links. The reason being that spammers adding untoward links can earn you a poor reputation in the eyes of Google. Of […]

I spotted a fantastic quick visual guide for the recommended use of some of the current popular social media sites in an article entitled: A CMO’s Guide to the Social Media Landscape over at CMO.com. Well worth 5 minutes of your time…

Another week, another barrage of exciting SEO and technology related news. Highlights this week include the struggle for search dominance on mobile and desktop, Google Buzz getting more press – both good & bad and Tiger Woods’ streamed apology. Mobile Mobile Search Dominance WebProNews discussed Windows 7 Phone having Bing built in potentially increasing its […]

Note – I originally attempted to publish this article on SEOmoz, but there was a ‘conflict of interest’ as they weren’t willing to out other SEO websites’ possibly unethical practices. I found the recent release of SEOmoz’s Open Site Explorer extremely useful. It’s particularly good at comparing sites quickly and listing inbound links in descending […]

Another week of top SEO news from influential industry sources, collated and commented on, to save you the bother. This weeks highlights include Google Buzz, Yahoo leaving search and Vancouver 2010 online. Google Buzz As I , Google’s new social platform: Buzz has arrived, bringing with it a chance to get more instantly indexed SERP […]

Robert Scoble recently called a new mobile tool: Siri “the most useful thing I’ve seen this year”. It glues together a number of different APIs to allow users to potentially find information about pretty much anything, once the right APIs are hooked up, as explained in this interview with Siri’s CEO. This fascinates me, as […]

Google announced their new social platform: Buzz this week, to lots of media erm…buzz. It fits neatly into Gmail and with typically easy to use image & video features and a neat location specific mobile web app (not to mention Google’s monstrous size & leverage), it looks set to rival Twitter & Facebook. As Chris […]

Another week of unmissable technology and SEO news from the top sources, to save you having to trawl through yourself. Highlights include Firefox going mobile, comments being removed from Engadget, how to be included in Google News and astronauts on Twitter. Firefox Goes Mobile and IE6 Goes Kaput As the number of users surfing the […]

In an interesting video from Google Webmaster Central today, Matt Cutts clears up the matter of how Google deals with PageRank from websites that have gone out of business. In reply to the question: “Does Google remove the PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist?”, with reference to Geocities closure, Cutts says: […]